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In the last two games, Nottingham Forest have lost points purely because of refereeing decisions.

We should have won against West Brom and we should have beaten Preston North End on Saturday. But we didn’t. And that’s all down to referees. We’ve been left with two draws.

If you add in the game at Leeds United earlier in the season, when we got robbed of the win by Kemar Roofe’s handball, those three decisions have cost us six points. And those six points would have put us right up there in the table. It's disgraceful.

These are big decisions in important games which the officials have messed up - and they have cost us points. That’s totally and utterly wrong.

He’s now been banned for two matches, but it should have been about five. The authorities need to clamp down on it, they need to make it more of a deterrent. And Gayle being suspended doesn’t do anything for us – although it does mean the referee, Lee Mason, has been made to look a chump.

Gayle cheated us out of the win.

Dwight Gayle is fouled for a penalty in the last minutes of the game (Image: Getty Images)

I do think we got a little bit lucky, because Lewis Grabban probably should have been sent off for a challenge. That was another one which the officials missed.

Then there was Lolley being pulled back right at the end.

Lolley is too honest. He didn’t go down, he stayed on his feet. If he had, he would have got a penalty.

But the referee was right behind it, so he should have seen him getting pulled about anyway.

Players get kicked on their ankles and go down clutching their face, rolling around to try to get someone sent off or get a free-kick. They go down at the slightest touch, and referees give fouls for almost anything.

We have to do something about all that.

No-one likes to be cheated out of anything – it’s the same in any walk of life. You don’t like to see anyone being conned, whether that be for £10 or three points in a football match.